"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."

"I have just been reading a very clever book, which I think is very witty."

"I wish, as well as every body else, to be perfectly happy; but, like every body else, it must be in my own way."

"I have just been informed that I am to be an aunt."

"My dearest Cassandra, I have just received your letter, and am sorry to find that you have so little to say for yourself."